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The month of the long decline of roses
Hendecasyllabicsby Algernon Charles SwinburneIn the month of the long decline of rosesI, beholding the summer dead before me,Set my face to the sea and journeyed silent,Gazing eagerly where above the...
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To have genius and be obscure
“Dandies... as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.”“For with dandies,...
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Baddely or Goodeley
"I have spent most of my life working in the theatre - which is always my greatest love - but the films and television were the providers of the little luxuries of life."The utterly marvellous Hermione...
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She got the look
Possibly the most influential "look" in history.Louise Brooks (born Mary Louise Brooks, 14th November 1906 – 8th August 1985)
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This weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...
...like today's birthday girl and Patron Saint Miss Amanda Lear!
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Night time is my time for just reminiscin’
You might find the night timeThe right time for kissin’But night time is my timeFor just reminiscin’Ruth Etting (23rd November 1897 – 24th September 1978)
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One must be amused
"I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.""I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them and they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know...
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Art tart
Who would ever have thought it?In addition to being a spectacular performance artist, counter-tenor vocalist and 80s icon, the wonderful Klaus Nomi was a fully-qualified pastry chef!And (of course) the...
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This weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...
...like today's birthday girl, the glorious Miss Dorothy Lamour (10th December 1914 – 22nd September 1996)!
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On the Jukebox This Weekend at Dolores Delargo Towers - Mambo King centenary...
Dámaso Pérez Prado (11th December 1916 – 14th September 1989)
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A thing of strange beauty
“In his glory days of the 1920s, he entered the vaudeville stage or circus ring like a Ziegfield showgirl, swathed in ostrich feathers, stunningly gowned, bejewelled and bewigged. He then removed his...
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The girl with the million-dollar legs
Another centenary to celebrate today - the "girl with the million-dollar legs", Miss Betty Grable."I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.""The...
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Goodnight, 'dahling'
"How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?""I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.""I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got...
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I think today should be...
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (11th December 1892 – 17th March 1979)...a "Say Something Hat" day! Don't you?Dan Leno (born George Wild Galvin, 20th December 1860 – 31st October 1904)Yvonne Arnaud (20th December...
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Light squibs
The sun is spent, and now his flasksSend forth light squibs, no constant rays;The world's whole sap is sunk;The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk,Whither, as to the bed's feet, life is...
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A Camp Diva Xmas
Cheers from Jean Dawnay, Princess George Galitzine, last of the 50s "supermodels" (22nd March 1926 - 21st December 2016).Seasons Greetings from Cher (and the Lennon Sisters):Cher with the Lennon...
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Glamour is assurance
"Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.""It...
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A rather dusty icon
“I think there is an accepted way that a face should be, and I’m not like that.”“It’s what turns up, quite honestly. When I started out I didn’t have any of this in mind. Not a scrap of it. I just...
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